Thomas Fridge

Thomas Fridge (14 March 1571-winter 1611) was an early English settler of Jamestown in the Colony of Virginia. He served as a militia captain during the Powhatan Attack in Virginia, fighting under the command of John Smith against the Indians.

Biography
Thomas Fridge was born on 14 March 1571 in Leicester, England. Fridge was born to a poor farming family, and he set out to the New World in 1607 with John Smith to seek a better life. Fridge became a trained militia captain who defended the people of the Jamestown settlement from attacks by the native Powhatan Confederacy tribes in the Battle of Jamestown, and he then led troops in the capture of Weruwocomoco and Shackamaxon. He died in winter 1611 of natural causes.